TX TX - Myrtle Polk, 88, driving, Dallas, 11 Jun 2024

[DS2021]

Loved ones desperate for answers in search for Myrtle Polk two months after disappearance

Myrtle Polk, 88, was last seen in early June along Indian Creek Trail, driving a Black 2004 Lexus ES 330 sedan.

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DALLAS - More than two months have passed since 88-year-old Myrtle Polk went missing from her Singing Hills neighborhood in Oak Cliff, leaving her tight-knit community of family and friends on a desperate search for answers.

Myrtle Polk was last seen in early June along Indian Creek Trail, driving a Black 2004 Lexus ES 330 sedan, which has also not been located. Given her age and medical history, the Texas Department of Public Safety issued a Silver Alert, and highway signs were activated for several days to assist in the search.

Her only son, Philip Polk, said because of the length of time his mother has been missing, police are no longer able to provide high levels of support for the search efforts.

 

[HIM_Darling]

Thinking about Mrs. Polk today. I wonder if the family has reached out to any of the dive teams that search water for missing people. Or if the police could say if they've searched any bodies of water for her car. I know there aren't many places near her home where she could have gone in the water, but at this point I feel like if she were close to home she would have been found. I do keep coming back to Mountain Creek Lake. Her husband is buried at DFW National Cemetery and looking on street view there are a few places a car could make it into the water near there. I don't know if she often went to visit him, but I know my dad has checked on a few distraught widows when he's been out there visiting his parents graves. Then of course there is the Trinity River and a few other lakes nearby. If only her car had been spotted somewhere, giving seachers a general direction to look in.

 

[freespirit1]

Thinking about Mrs. Polk today. I wonder if the family has reached out to any of the dive teams that search water for missing people. Or if the police could say if they've searched any bodies of water for her car. I know there aren't many places near her home where she could have gone in the water, but at this point I feel like if she were close to home she would have been found. I do keep coming back to Mountain Creek Lake. Her husband is buried at DFW National Cemetery and looking on street view there are a few places a car could make it into the water near there. I don't know if she often went to visit him, but I know my dad has checked on a few distraught widows when he's been out there visiting his parents graves. Then of course there is the Trinity River and a few other lakes nearby. If only her car had been spotted somewhere, giving seachers a general direction to look in.

The fact that her car was never spotted or found is very suspicious and, makes me feel there's a possibility that she may have been abducted from her home.

 

[HIM_Darling]

The fact that her car was never spotted or found is very suspicious and, makes me feel there's a possibility that she may have been abducted from her home.

You're right. I do think its interesting that no doorbell/security cameras saw her car leaving her home. Looking on street view at least a few of her neighbors have them, so I wonder what they show.

 

[Centaurus]

Whenever there is a case like this, I always remember Tanya Rider: Woman Survives 8 Days in Wrecked Car.

Tanya was trapped in her car for 8 days after it went off the road and was stuck in a gully. I'll take a peek on Google maps and see what kind of roads are in the area she was last seen in, I always worry about something like this happening, especially with older folks.

 

[Centaurus]

DBM - duplicate

 

[Centaurus]

Thinking about Mrs. Polk today. I wonder if the family has reached out to any of the dive teams that search water for missing people. Or if the police could say if they've searched any bodies of water for her car. I know there aren't many places near her home where she could have gone in the water, but at this point I feel like if she were close to home she would have been found. I do keep coming back to Mountain Creek Lake. Her husband is buried at DFW National Cemetery and looking on street view there are a few places a car could make it into the water near there. I don't know if she often went to visit him, but I know my dad has checked on a few distraught widows when he's been out there visiting his parents graves. Then of course there is the Trinity River and a few other lakes nearby. If only her car had been spotted somewhere, giving seachers a general direction to look in.

I think you might be onto something there. That cemetary is literally on the water. According to family members on the Official FB page, they have done water searches though. It wouldn't be the first time a car has been missed though.

 

[Teamir]

Thinking about Mrs. Polk today. I wonder if the family has reached out to any of the dive teams that search water for missing people. Or if the police could say if they've searched any bodies of water for her car. I know there aren't many places near her home where she could have gone in the water, but at this point I feel like if she were close to home she would have been found. I do keep coming back to Mountain Creek Lake. Her husband is buried at DFW National Cemetery and looking on street view there are a few places a car could make it into the water near there. I don't know if she often went to visit him, but I know my dad has checked on a few distraught widows when he's been out there visiting his parents graves. Then of course there is the Trinity River and a few other lakes nearby. If only her car had been spotted somewhere, giving seachers a general direction to look in.

You can reach out to Adventures With Purpose. They’ve been really good about responding on the ones I’ve sent them.

 

[HIM_Darling]

You can reach out to Adventures With Purpose. They’ve been really good about responding on the ones I’ve sent them.

Eh, there's been quite a bit of controversy with Adventures with Purpose. Of the sort that made me stop following him. Here's probably not the best place to go into it, but it has to do with CSA and the founding member of the group. In fact everyone else quit the group and he's been harassing them with lawsuits trying to make it so they can't continue to search for missing people on their own or with other people. Someone really in it for kindness/helping families find closure wouldn't be trying to hinder others from also helping.

 

[mlhenn]

Son desperately searching for mother who “vanished into thin air” from Dallas in June 2024

Myrtle Polk, 88, has not been seen for nearly 8 months. Her car, a 2004 Black Lexus ES 330 with Texas license plate BV7-K204, is also missing.

www.nbcnews.com

“I would see her at church every Sunday,” Charlotte told Dateline. “But we talked every day.”

Charlotte called Myrtle later that afternoon. “No answer,” she said. “And I called again. No answer.”

On Monday, June 10, Myrtle’s son Philip — who lives in another state — got a call from one of Myrtle’s neighbors. “And so she’s like, ‘Hey, I just wanted to let you know. It’s Monday, and I, you know, came over to talk to your mom. She’s not here, and I don’t see her car in the garage,’” Philip recounted. Another neighbor drove around the neighborhood looking for Myrtle, but didn’t see her anywhere.

Meanwhile, Philip began to learn about Myrtle’s weekend before she vanished. On Friday, June 7, Myrtle drove herself to the bank. Then she was seen midday on Saturday, June 8. “She had a yard man over doing her yard,” Philip said. “And she was sitting out on the stoop in front of her home, talking to her neighbor.”

Philip spoke with his mother on the phone that day, as well.

Later that evening, Myrtle spoke with a friend on the phone. “There was a lady that she would always talk with every night. The lady told me, she said, ‘We talk every night about 9 o’clock,’” Charlotte said, adding that the friend’s name was Stella. “They talked and she said the last thing [Myrtle] said was, ‘Well, Stella, I have to get off the phone. I’m gonna get up and get my clothes and see what I’m gonna wear to church in the morning.’”

 

[mlhenn]

Son desperately searching for mother who “vanished into thin air” from Dallas in June 2024

Myrtle Polk, 88, has not been seen for nearly 8 months. Her car, a 2004 Black Lexus ES 330 with Texas license plate BV7-K204, is also missing.

www.nbcnews.com

Last day anyone seen or talked to Ms Polk was Saturday, June 8th.

DPD told Dateline via email that Myrtle was last seen “on June 10, 2024, at approximately 12:00 p.m.”

The date conflicts with the information provided by Myrtle’s loved ones. Dateline followed up with Martinez about the conflicting dates, to which he replied, “According to the report, the reporting person travelled to the South Central Patrol Station to report her missing on June 10th and stated she was last seen on June 10th around noon.” The PIO also said, “We do not have any information that would discredit his report, but technically anything is possible.”

“The 10th is not an accurate date, as far as I’m concerned.

 

[meanmaryjean]

A year and no update on Ms. Polk? Her poor family.

 

[wendybtn]

Missing vehicle and missing person may be in water somewhere.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Search for missing 88-year-old Myrtle Polk resumes after car found in Dallas creek

The car that belongs to a missing elderly Dallas woman has been found. Now police are renewing their search efforts for Myrtle Polk.

www.fox4news.com

November 4, 2025

• The missing car of an 88-year-old Dallas grandmother, Myrtle Polk, was found on Tuesday evening.
• Family members confirmed the 2004 black Lexus sedan was pulled from a body of water in Dallas.
• Polk's whereabouts are still unknown, and police have not yet released an official update on the case.

Car belonging to missing 88-year-old Dallas woman Myrtle Polk found, but police find no sign of her

Polk, a beloved community member and former Dallas ISD teacher, has been missing since June 8, 2024.

www.wfaa.com

After 17 months of searching for a missing 88-year-old Dallas woman, police found and recovered her car in Five Mile Creek. The car, however, was empty. Myrtle Polk is still missing.

Police sources tell WFAA that children found the vehicle upside down in the creek near Wagon Wheels Trail and South Lancaster Road, more than 100 yards from the nearest road. A tow truck and winch were used to pull the vehicle from the creek. Sources tell WFAA that police scoured the banks of Five Mile Creek but found no sign of Myrtle Polk.

 

[GraceG]

Here's a map. If she was driving on Wagon Wheels and got disoriented or had a medical event she could have driven across the open land into the water. As to where her body ended up, a lot would depend on current and water levels (any high rains heavy water during that time?) But I don't see someone carjacking or stealing the vehicle and trying to ditch it in a creek. This breaks my heart, too many seniors with dementia/alzheimers and or other cognitive/memory issues driving and ending up lost in the news lately. My Dad literally wrote me out of the will when I took his car keys away at 92 (with all sorts of transportation arranged so he could to anywhere he wanted, anytime), but you know, I'd do it again, he was safe, and lived to be 102 (and yes, he eventually forgave me But what was scary was how QUICKLY he declined, he was fine one week and 3 weeks later, got lost, ending miles from home in a city my late brother had lived, where he called for assistance. Wagon Wheels Trail & S Lancaster Rd · Dallas, TX 75241

 

[HIM_Darling]

Based on the footage I've seen, it seems like her car was pulled from somewhere in here. In the footage from today, that field seems to be where the police are staged and focused on that side of the creek in the searches they were doing of the water today. I wonder if something happened and she ended up just going straight from where Wagon Wheels Trail ends at S Lancaster Rd, through the field and into the creek. In the google street view from Feb 2025, one of the fence posts directly across from the intersection is bent in toward the field, and its not bent in the previous view from 2022. I don't know if a car driving over that type of fence would completely knock the fence down or just bend it out of place.

From what I've seen the search divers say, that seems to be common among elderly, when they get lost/confused many times they just go straight and refuse to turn around, and many times end up driving off boat ramps, etc.

Editing to update. It seems like her car may not have been found in the water. Just in the heavy brush along the creek. Per a post on FB from Dallas Police Department "Search efforts continue for Ms. Myrtle Polk, who has been missing since June 2024. After recovering her car near 5 Mile Creek". They say near the creek, not in the creek, so she may have crashed and then got out and wandered off injured? If she tried to follow the creek east, there really isn't anything that runs along the water for quite a long way. There are some buildings, but there is quite a bit of trees/brush between the creek and the buildings. And who knows how long she was able to walk in whatever state she was in.